Renditions are for cowards such as Clinton and Obama. Bush dealt with Terrorists lole the MAN he is.
Bush placed the Terrorists in GITMO so the entire world could watch and observe wha twas going on there. and watch how the prisoners were treated. On Feb 12, 8:33�am, "liberal mike532 !" <[email protected]> wrote: > A Call to End All Renditions [ it is time for Obama to put up or shut > up ! ]http://www.truthout.org/021109A > Marjorie Cohn, in an article for Jurist, presents legal background > and > analysis on the United States's practice of rendition under the Bush > administration, and examines the legal opinions offered so far by the > Justice Department under President Barack Obama. > > Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was > tortured > after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. > government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantanamo in 2004 and all > terrorism charges against him were dismissed last year. Mohamed was a > victim of extraordinary rendition, in which a person is abducted > without any legal proceedings and transferred to a foreign country > for > detention and interrogation, often tortured. > > � � Mohamed and four other plaintiffs are accusing Boeing subsidiary > Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. of flying them to other countries and secret > CIA camps where they were tortured. In Mohamed's case, two British > justices accused the Bush administration of pressuring the British > government to block the release of evidence that was "relevant to > allegations of torture" of Mohamed. > > � � Twenty-five lines edited out of the court documents included > details about how Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel as > well as other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding "is very > far down the list of things they did," according to a British > official > quoted by the Telegraph (UK). > > � � The plaintiffs' complaint quotes a former Jeppesen employee as > saying, "We do all of the extraordinary rendition flights - you know, > the torture flights." A senior company official also apparently > admitted the company transported people to countries where they would > be tortured. > > � � Obama's Justice Department appeared before a three-judge panel of > the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday in the Jeppesen > lawsuit. But instead of making a clean break with the dark policies > of > the Bush years, the Obama administration claimed the same "state > secrets" privilege that Bush used to block inquiry into his policies > of torture and illegal surveillance. Claiming that the extraordinary > rendition program is a state secret is disingenuous since it is has > been extensively documented in the media. > > � � "This was an opportunity for the new administration to act on its > condemnation of torture and rendition, but instead it has chosen to > stay the course," said the ACLU's Ben Wizner, counsel for the five > men. > > � � If the judges accept Obama's state secrets claim, these men will > be denied their day in court and precluded from any recovery for the > damages they suffered as a result of extraordinary rendition. > > � � Two and a half weeks before Obama's representative appeared in > the > Jeppesen case, the new President had signed Executive Order 13491. It > established a special task force "to study and evaluate the practices > of transferring individuals to other nations in order to ensure that > such practices comply with the domestic laws, international > obligations, and policies of the United States and do not result in > the transfer of individuals to other nations to face torture or > otherwise for the purpose, or with the effect, of undermining or > circumventing the commitments or obligations of the United States to > ensure the humane treatment of individuals in its custody or > control." > > � � This order prohibits extraordinary rendition. It also ensures > humane treatment of persons in U.S. custody or control. But it > doesn't > specifically guarantee that prisoners the United States renders to > other countries will be free from cruel, inhuman or degrading > treatment that doesn't amount to torture. It does, however, aim to > ensure that our government's practices of transferring people to > other > countries complies with U.S. laws and policies, including our > obligations under international law. > > � � One of those laws is the International Covenant on Civil > Political > Rights (ICCPR), a treaty the United States ratified in 1992. Article > 7 > of the ICCPR prohibits the States Parties from subjecting persons "to > torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment." > The Human Rights Committee, which is the body that monitors the > ICCPR, > has interpreted that prohibition to forbid States Parties from > exposing "individuals to the danger of torture or cruel, inhuman or > degrading treatment or punishment upon return to another country by > way of their extradition, expulsion or refoulement." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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